PCC [Natural Markets] says Horizon milk will be pulled (Seattle; not org.)

[lindisfarne]

Friday, August 11, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

PCC says Horizon milk will be pulled
By Melissa Allison

PCC Natural Markets will stop carrying milk products from the country's largest organic dairy company, Horizon Organic, next month because it doubts that the products meet organic standards.

PCC's biggest concern is that some cows are not receiving enough pasture time, "but there are a lot of other things that have been alleged that need to be investigated officially," said Goldie Caughlan, PCC's nutrition-education manager and a former member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic standards board.

Customers have complained as well, she said, expressing a lack of confidence in the brand.

The Seattle grocery chain's decision coincides with a complaint to the USDA filed against Horizon by the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit group in Wisconsin. Cornucopia is calling for an investigation into Horizon's practices, which it says include little or no pasture time for some dairy cattle and the use of cows that were not raised organically.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003190574_dairy11.html

See this thread for a link to ratings of organic dairies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=63545&mesg_id=63547

[davidwparker]

1. Gee. This is the brand of milk and butter that I've been getting.

thanks for posting this.

[MrCoffee]

2. I buy Horizon...well, maybe I should say "used" to buy

I don't shop PCC though.

[thereismore]

3. I don't drink cow's milk. I do eat cheese on occasion. Milk is for

calves. I think if I needed to drink milk for some evolutionary reason, my mother would still be lactating.

[lindisfarne]

4. Yes, thank goodness for the militant anti-milk view! But eating cheese

(milk-based) seems hypocritical.

[thereismore]

5. Haha, I am not an anti-milk nazi if I eat cheese, aren't I.

Nobody's perfect. Do you have a rational rebuttal of my evolutionary argument against drinking milk of another mammal in adulthood?